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Carrizo and AM4. They made a decently significant improvement to power efficiency and even squeezed in an almost 10% IPC improvement, as well as the move to AM4 which would support drop-in upgrades to Zen when it launched. OEMs did move to integrate AM4 ahead of Zen's launch and that's where you...

IPC gains have sucked because it's been the same cores since M1. They haven't done any drastic changes except to L2 caches, fabric/SLC bandwidth, and updates to various fixed function accelerators. The new GPU architecture was rolled out with M2, mildly gimped. The un-gimped GPU was rolled out...

It's more that they removed the limits right out of the gate. What was a 200W card 10 years ago is now a 300W+ card because they simply max out the headroom in binning and ship it at the highest power it can sustain. Look back at cards like the GTX 680 and HD 7970 with 25-30% headroom if you...

And Zen 3+ on N6, and Phoenix/Hawk Point on N4.

M4 is the big-boy GPU upgrade as well as the next step up on ARMv9-A. Uses improved BTI, increases decode width on the performance cores (up from 8-wide), and increases execution pipeline depth on the efficiency cores (up from a theorized 12-stages). That particular change is interesting because...

It's all been about AI with Intel since 2018. TOPS/W is a big metric they've been pushing since the announcement of Ice Lake when they debuted GNA, VNNI, and DL Boost. "'Ice Lake' is [Intel's] biggest step forward in systematically thinking about AI," Ran Senderovitz, Intel VP of mobile...

Stock-jockeys know nothing and are a reactionary and fickle animal. If they see their shadow in the morning they'll shout doom and gloom.

"The Concluder" is in every VIA/CenTaur engineering BIOS going back to at least 2007. Not sure how Linus "imitated" somebody by just using what's on the engineering boards.

And it isn't 5 months ago anymore. Steve's conclusion is based on a couple outlier games being not great, but if you read through all those charts you can see the cards are placing much higher these days, and much more consistently.

With the A750 now at $200 in the US, and drivers as of January, you should look at that ratio again. The A750 is consistently 10-15% faster than a 6600, sometimes equal to or faster than a 6600 XT, and between equal or ~5% faster than a 3060 12GB. The even cheaper A580 ($170) has grown up to be...

Same as it ever was! The biggest benefit to Arc has been the RTX 4060 and RX 7600/XT being worse for more or equal money. Intel may have launched late, but their competition is asleep at the wheel in the mid-range.

I think it's pretty self explanatory that if there is no GPU listed, it has no GPU included or enabled. SKUs that have a GPU have it listed under "Core Config". The GPU database also lists and links to CPUs that include specific iGPUs.

I know people don't like the guy but this just feels needlessly inflammatory...

The black one is older. You can see it's a B0 with a board date of 1421, and the white/silver is C1 with a board date of 3821. The later card has also got the final fan and nearly final I/O plate design.

The patch is for x87 code paths, not SSE or AVX. AIDA64 leverages AVX on Bulldozer for the GPGPU tests. It wouldn't help any.